NBA: *** 2024 NBA thread ***

[FerShizzle]

The Brunson head flop is infuriating. Any contact and he flings his head back to draw a call. Also Knicks fans suck, so makes any Knicks star hateable.

its not just the head flopping. its him lowering his shoulder or back side into a defender in legal guarding position and then flopping. this is very different than being on a straight line drive, and flopping your head because you were cut off by a defender who is not in legal guarding position.

 

[cycloneman003]

Tamin and Keshon ate good with that move, people do it because it works.

It shouldn’t work is the problem. How that’s called has to be addressed in the NBA because it is out of control

 

[FerShizzle]

Tamin and Keshon ate good with that move, people do it because it works.

did they? it seems refs definitely figured out to mostly ignore both of them doing this.

 

[FerShizzle]

It shouldn’t work is the proven. How that’s called has to be addressed in the NBA because it is out of control

the NBA has always been a 'stars get calls, scrubs dont' kind of league. but these 2 take it to a new level. it's going to be hard to reign in.

 

[3TrueFans]

It shouldn’t work is the problem. How that’s called has to be addressed in the NBA because it is out of control

Not disagreeing with you, just saying it's a systemic problem and not a player problem.

 

[t-noah]

Bulldog is the word that comes to mind for me.

A bulldog who is a tenacious scorer!

 

[t-noah]

The Brunson head flop is infuriating. Any contact and he flings his head back to draw a call. Also Knicks fans suck, so makes any Knicks star hateable.

I hadn't really noticed, but it seems to be a theme here. I will pay more attention tonight.

Would be great if the Pacers could steal another one. The Knicks should win tonight though, at home. These two teams are evenly matched.

 

[HFCS]

The Brunson head flop is infuriating. Any contact and he flings his head back to draw a call. Also Knicks fans suck, so makes any Knicks star hateable.

I like that the NBA went NUCLEAR on the leg kick thing for shooters essentially removing it from the game, but now remaining stuff like that is even more annoying. Like on a replay if a shooter even slightly kicks out the leg the foul goes on the shooter, but they can replay Brunson's signature move, realize nobody even touched him when he did the paralysis neck whip and that can't be called the way a flop or a leg kick. Or if it can be called it never does.

 

[HFCS]

its not just the head flopping. its him lowering his shoulder or back side into a defender in legal guarding position and then flopping. this is very different than being on a straight line drive, and flopping your head because you were cut off by a defender who is not in legal guarding position.

A maaaaaaaaasive % of Brunson's highlights are just him pushing guys around with no call.

Full credit after he shoves the guy or bowling balls him with his shoulder, he's about the best I've ever seen at actually making the pull up shot.

The only thing I can remember as comparable is when Wade was in his prime they'd talk about how he was the greatest shot blocking guard of all time, they'd show a highlight of like 20 blocks in a row, and on all 20 "blocks" he's just felony assault on the shooter with his other hand.

 

[HFCS]

the NBA has always been a 'stars get calls, scrubs dont' kind of league. but these 2 take it to a new level. it's going to be hard to reign in.

Every once in a while it can backfire because the rest of their team is basically standing around doing nothing on offense when the opponent is actually playing and making real baskets. Especially if they're taking a ton of bogus gift 2 shot fts and the other team is making/taking 3s.

In the Pacers/Cavs series there were like 10 minute stretches where four Cavs players weren't involved in any offense, it was just Mitchell drawing fouls and the rest of their team standing around watching his free throw contest. Meanwhile on the other end the Pacers were slinging the ball all over the place and making shots because they had to with no calls. At some point you need to make an actual shot even with all the FT gifts.

 

[cyfan92]

Brunson has a great stiff arm that never gets called either..

 

[HFCS]

Brunson has a great stiff arm that never gets called either..

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It's especially bad when they string together a highlight clip of like his 10 best shots and almost all of them are blatant offensive fouls. Yeah he's incredible at sinking the shot...after the offensive foul you could see from outer space.

 

[FerShizzle]

Every once in a while it can backfire because the rest of their team is basically standing around doing nothing on offense when the opponent is actually playing and making real baskets. Especially if they're taking a ton of bogus gift 2 shot fts and the other team is making/taking 3s.

In the Pacers/Cavs series there were like 10 minute stretches where four Cavs players weren't involved in any offense, it was just Mitchell drawing fouls and the rest of their team standing around watching his free throw contest. Meanwhile on the other end the Pacers were slinging the ball all over the place and making shots because they had to with no calls. At some point you need to make an actual shot even with all the FT gifts.

It also results in a bunch of make up calls being called on his teammates. Stealing calls like this comes with a karma deficit. KAT got a couple cheap calls on him after a couple of Brunsons gifts from the officials.

 

[FerShizzle]

Brunson has a great stiff arm that never gets called either..

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Being undersized is to his advantage here. He is almost always smaller than the player he pushes. But if LeBron did this it would look horrible and be called often.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Brunson has a great stiff arm that never gets called either..

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Hmm, ref must have had a bad angle to see it

 

[3TrueFans]

Brunson has a great stiff arm that never gets called either..

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Still shots are also deceiving though, that play as it happened should never ever be a foul, the contact was as minimal as you can get.

 

[Texbudman]

Every once in a while it can backfire because the rest of their team is basically standing around doing nothing on offense when the opponent is actually playing and making real baskets. Especially if they're taking a ton of bogus gift 2 shot fts and the other team is making/taking 3s.

In the Pacers/Cavs series there were like 10 minute stretches where four Cavs players weren't involved in any offense, it was just Mitchell drawing fouls and the rest of their team standing around watching his free throw contest. Meanwhile on the other end the Pacers were slinging the ball all over the place and making shots because they had to with no calls. At some point you need to make an actual shot even with all the FT gifts.

Everyone on the Pacers is very involved in their offense and Tyrese does a great job keeping everyone engaged. They have a lot of great passers on that team and all of them seem to have good hands. Fun team to watch

 

[FerShizzle]

Siakam going off. Pacers look ready to play again tonight.

 

[HFCS]

Siakam going off. Pacers look ready to play again tonight.

it would be incredible to go 4-0 on the road vs #1 and #3 seeds

I'm guessing that would be another stat you could look up and probably very rare.

 

[FerShizzle]

it would be incredible to go 4-0 on the road vs #1 and #3 seeds

I'm guessing that would be another stat you could look up and probably very rare.

5-0. They won 3 games in Cleveland.